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We ask you only once a year: please help us today. We’re an independent, non-profit website that the entire world depends on. We protect reader privacy. We never sell ads. But we still need to pay for servers and staff. If everyone chips in $25, we can keep this going for free. For the price of a book, we can share that book online forever. When I started this, people called me crazy. Collect web pages? Why? Who’d want to read a book on a screen?I founded this as a nonprofit so together we could build a special place to read, learn and explore. We lend three e-books per minute and answer a thousand of your questions per month. If you find our site useful, please chip in today. Thank you. —Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive

We ask you only once a year: please help us today. We’re an independent, non-profit website that the entire world depends on. We protect reader privacy. We never sell ads. But we still need to pay for servers and staff. If everyone chips in $25, we can keep this going for free. For the price of a book, we can share that book online forever. When I started this, people called me crazy. Collect web pages? Why? Who’d want to read a book on a screen?I founded this as a nonprofit so together we could build a special place to read, learn and explore. We lend three e-books per minute and answer a thousand of your questions per month. If you find our site useful, please chip in today. Thank you. —Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive

We ask you only once a year: please help Open Library today. We’re an independent, non-profit website that the entire world depends on. We never sell ads, but still need to pay for servers and staff. If everyone chips in $25, we can keep this going for free. For the price of a book, we can share that book online forever. When I started this, people called me crazy. Who’d want to read a book on a screen?I founded this as a nonprofit so together we could build a special place to read, learn and explore. If you find our site useful, please chip in today. Thank you. —Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive

Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as - at best - an invasion of privacy, and at worst an infringement of human rights. But in this radical new account of the uses of surveillance in art, performance and popular culture, John E McGrath sets out a surprizing alternative: a world where we have much to gain from the experience of being watched. In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we can and do desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This text looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory. This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space - somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand.